Performance can sometimes be maintained under stress or high workload through compensatory effort and performance–cost trade-offs.

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Hockey presents a cognitive-energetical framework in which compensatory control can preserve task goals under stress or high workload by dynamically allocating effort and accepting different performance–cost trade-offs.

The framework does not show that preserved performance always carries hidden physiological damage, that compensation works indefinitely, or that every high-performing person under pressure is using the same mechanism.

The Working Map identifies Hockey as the strongest chapter-specific source for the Output System. The public claim stays with performance maintenance and compensatory cost rather than the manuscript’s wider life-cost argument.

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